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Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP?

I often find threads with a few interesting and promising comments, which I'm assuming will have many replies to the discussion, but always have to remember to check back to the post. Is there any way to 'subscribe' to a comment and get emails when a new comment is added? Or maybe when new comments pass a user-set score threshold? Maybe this could be a browser extension?

DamonHD 7y ago
AFAIK there is no easy way to do it: I would like to too!
- ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
  Ironically, I'm having to constantly check this submission to see if anyone has posted a solution!
borjasoler 7y ago
You can try doing it with Zapier or IFTTT. Looking at IFTTT I have found an applet [1] that can do the trick for it. [1] https://ifttt.com/applets/gk7AZpcd-get-an-email-when-a-specific-user-comments-on-any-hacker-news-thread https://ifttt.com/applets/gk7AZpcd-get-an-email-when-a-speci...
handoff 7y ago
This is something a browser extension could easily do
- tonyHwks 7y ago
  Instead of emails it could show a notification and update its badge
  - ASlave2Gravity 7y ago
    Mmm. Yes. That would be perfect!